I am a husband and a father of 3. I picked up photography as a hobby and bought my SLR when my son was born in 2006. I used Yahoo Photo for several years and only moved to Flickr when I was forced, but I am happy I am here now.

My family and I moved to southern Germany from our pervious home in Connecitcut. I am orignally from Marshalltown Iowa and have lived in Dubuque Iowa, Madison, Wisconsin, Danbury Connecticut and now Germany. I originally used Flickr to share photos with family back in the Midwest. About 80% of my photos are of family, but now that I am addicted to Flickr, i add my historical, artistic, landscape and nature photos to share. And as of 2016 I purchased Photoshop Elements, so now I can invest even more time... Just trying to learn and have some fun.